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26 Cards in this Set
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Devolve Verb |
1) to pass duties into somebody else To deputize 2)to change into a lower or more primitive state |
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Minacious Adjective |
Threatening menacing ..intimidating .. comminatory |
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Quisling Noun |
A traitor who aids forces invading his own country |
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Feston Noun |
A garland of leaves or flowers hoisted up in a loop; Suspended from 2 points |
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Exiguous Adjective |
Scanty; Very bare; Direly lacking (exiguity Noun) |
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Ribald Adjective |
Extremely vulgar, Wanton, Profane, Bawoly |
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Sundry Adjective |
Miscellaneous; Assorted, Separate; N.B. "all and sundry"="all the various people, individually and collectively |
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Diverse Adjective |
Several, Sundry, Various, More than one, but not a great number N.B. "divers and sundry" |
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Panoply Noun |
Magnificent array; A display; An ostentatious exhibition |
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Contrite Adjective |
Expressing remorse, Filled with deep sorrow |
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Stygian Adjective |
Dark and gloomy; Black |
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Foist Verb |
To impose upon another by coercions; To palm off; To insert improperly |
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Scuttle Verb |
To sink a ship, To scrape or discard and to do away with |
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Obstreperous Adjective |
Unruly and loud; Boisterous, Uncontrollable |
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Hirsute Adjective |
Shaggy; Hairy |
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Effuvium Noun |
1) An invisible emanation; Esp an offensive exhalation or smell; 2) a by-product; Esp. In the form of waste; Offal, dreck, dross, off-souring |
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Parse Verb |
To examine closely; To analyze into categories of thought |
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Overweening Adjective |
Arrogant; Insolent; Very presumptuous |
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Fatuous Adjective |
Smug and inexusably foolish; Silly and unrealistic |
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Plenary Adjective |
Attended by all qualified members; Full of all members |
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Ferret Verb |
To discover; To make visible, To force out of hiding; Persistently to search and tp make known |
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Denouement Noun |
An outcome or a solution, The unraveling of a plot; The final resolution |
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Prognathous Adjective |
1) having a jaw that sticks out 2) having postruive teeth |
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Funambulism Noun |
Tightrope walking |
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Sententious Adjective |
1) dithy 2) terse 3) short and cencise 4) aphoristic 5) self- righteous 6) tending to be excessively moralizing |
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Pasticne Noun |
1) a literary or musical composition intimidating a previous artist 2) often with satire |
